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Finds: i-Socket Vacuum Automator

By Sean O'Hara

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Kick-butt dust collection system: $750.  Wiring: $150.  Plumbing: $100.  Remembering to turn it on: Priceless. 

You could always leave the vacuum running continually, which is highly annoying and would shorten the life of the vacuum motor.  Or, you could just give up and clean up manually.  Both options suck.  Literally.  The iSocket connects between your wall socket and power tool.  When it senses current flow to the tool outlet, it switches on the second outlet to automatically kick on your dust collection system.

After you power down the tool it keeps the system running for an additional 7–seconds to clean out the dust collector’s inlet pipe.

It works with any standard 15/20 Amp, 125 Volt outlet and can be used with any 125 Volt power tool, miter saw, sander, table saw, router – any tool that has a dust collection port.

Street Pricing starts at $29.99 on the DGC site.

i-Socket 110m [DGC Products]


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4 Responses to “Finds: i-Socket Vacuum Automator”

  1. joe brown Says:
    August 30th, 2006 at 9:06 pm

    I don’t get what this thing does. Where does it attach, and what do you do with it?

  2. Chuck Cage Says:
    August 30th, 2006 at 11:13 pm

    Sorry ’bout that. Better?

  3. modernman Says:
    August 29th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    Seems like you could use this for a lot of unintended uses. I’m not sure what yet .

  4. Jim Steele Says:
    October 29th, 2007 at 10:27 am

    Does anyone make one of these you could put in the shop circuit box, so that several tools could trigger the vacuum system?

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